, 1887-07-07
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Jake Sharpe of New York has been
convicted.
Secretary Bayard wants to be .. S.
supreme court justice.
Senator Platt of Connecticut has
joined the anti saloon republican
party.
Frank McFadden and Miss Rilla
Kirksndale. both of Olympia, were
married at Colfax last week.
Lieut.. Gov Macdonald of Michigan
has just cleared $4,000 from min
ing investment of about $3.50.
Historian Bancroft has eighty type
writers copying the documents he
has on hand for his history of Presi-
dent Polk.
It is estimated at the treasury de-
psrtment that the reduction of the
public debt for June will be about
SIS 100000.
Colfax is having building boom
It is the center of a large and rich
agricultural region and will always
be prosperous town.
a rumor is in circulation that Vice
Prssi lent Van Horn, of the Canadian
Pacific, is to be the next president OF
the Milwaukee & st. Paul system
Z. NJ. Simmons, acquitted of the
charge of burning the Del Monte
hntsl, is soon to take charge of tie
Arlington, the finest hotel in Santa
Barbara.
At Walla Walla and Dayton there
is great deal of talk about wooden
mills, and it is believed that before
the year is through cloth will be made
at both places.
The Baltimore American bewails
the increase in one line of industry as
follows: American girls who go tc
Europe for husbands generally re
turn home for their divorces.
The inquest into the Nanaimo
mine disaster has been concluded
The jury stated in the verdict that
necessary precautions had not been
taken, although criminal negligence
is not charged.
There are five hundred men now
employed on the Oregon and Wash
ington territory railway, now building
q branch to connect with the n. z. l.
R., from Wallula to Pendleton. Five
hundred more men are wanted.
It is announced that Brooks, ALA.
Maxwell, viii be hanged at St. Louis
July 18th, for the murder OF Preller,
This case was the sensation of the
day at the time, but so long ago thai
it is almost forgotten.
1t is said that the English will no
accede to Turkeys demand that Eng
land shall only have the right to re
occupy Egypt in case of Turkey being
unable to send her own troops ant
applies for England's assistance.
The Presbyterian academy at Mon
ssssno will be reopened this fall Will
fall corps of teachers. Revs
Strange, Thompson and Mackey ar,
now there on Church and academy
business.
When David Bennett Hill read tn,
order TO surrender the Coifederat,
flags he went out in the back ward o
the executive mansion at ALBANY anC
smiled the tender, beautiful smile o.
q man who suddenly finds four ace:
in q merely casual hand.
In . letter 10 the New YorI
Tribune Mr.. 4. V. Gibbs, a member
OF the Florida Legislature, says thaI
Senator Sherman has not overstateG
The extreme measures adopted by
democrats in tie Southern states tC
suppress the right o. suffrage when
exercised by republicans.
II Is estimated, says an exchange
that there are faliy $1,000 sheer IN
fskims county, which at the ay,. :,
wool yield for tins year Of : p.....,i,
q head wouid H'..uuut To- 4 t.s. .-7k
ponnds, and at ~ cents per .... 3 d
valuation If S29O,OOO. or T.. ... tai.
source Alono their would ho o. wealth
Of about tS3 per capita in the county.
An English Journal says: The pop
uistiOn OF Great britain Is nearly
s6.00O,O00i the census OF 1851 placed
isaia at nearly l99,0O1OO0 IL to